Massively Open Online CourseExperiences, Observations, Trends

Charles SeveranceApril 24, 2012

Sakai Mexico, Puebla, Mexico

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet

During this talk, I am not speaking for the University of Michigan, I am not speaking for

Blackboard, Inc., I am not speaking for the IMS Global Learning Consortium, I am not Speaking

for the Apereo Foundation, and I am not speaking for Coursera.

Frankly, no matter who pays me or pays my travel, the only one I speak for is myself and my

goal is to improve teaching and learning through technology regardless of what

technology those teachers and students choose to use.

We are at the very beginning!No one has *any* idea where this

is going!Anyone who makes a "ground truth" claim about MOOCs is

wrong!

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Internet: TCI

Why Now? What is new or diffferent?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzNHvmSv8T

New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Ann Arbor MI, Wilmington, NC,

Chicago IL, Washington, DC, Memphis, TN, Seattle WA, Seoul, Barcelona, London, Amsterdam

Race to the Tipping Point

• Coursera: 2.4 Million

• edX: 525,000

• Udemy: 500, 000

• Blackboard CourseSites: 500,000

• Udacity: 460,000

• A new MOOC provider pops up every week or so (it seems)

This is *Only* The Beginning!

https://online.dr-chuck.com/

All of my MOOC software is also Open Source

https://p2pu.org/en/courses/175/python-for-informatics/

www.p2pu.org

www.coursesites.com

Dear Dr. Charles Severance!

I ask your permission to translate the course into Russian:

https://online.dr-chuck.com/

It will be published in the National Open University "INTUIT" (www.intuit.ru - in russian). All links to your site and the requirements of Copyright Creattive Commons Attribution 2.5 will be met. With respect,Anftoli Shkred, rector of NOU "INTUIT"

We have not yet talked about standards....

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Coursera API Roadmap*

• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.1 to plug in external tools like autograders or content systems from externally hosted systems

• In-browser widget using OAuth 2.0 and in browser provisioned APIs

• Dynamic question types HTML + JavaScript + Scala + Key,/Value per-student store - all hosted in the Coursera Infrastructure

* I do not work for Coursera - this is just what I heard in a talk

edX API Roadmap*

• IMS Learning Tools Interoperability 1.1 to plug in external tools like autograders or content systems from externally hosted systems

• In-browser widget using XBlock and in browser provisioned APIs - already released open source

• Full edX will be released open source (Affero GPL) - June 1, 2013

* I do not work for edX

Next Generation LMS Systems

• Scalability and dynamic provisioning is the key

• Instead of one server(or servers) per campus we have one server per course

• This is an $100 Million dollar rewrite from scratch - and a life/death race

• Coursera is 30 engineers and edX is 20 Engineers

Some Questions....

Nature of Innovation

Interesting Questions...

• What is wrong with this picture?

• How will this change higher education?

• How will teaching change? Invert the classroom?

• How will student's lives really change? Remedial education?

Summary...

Questions?

https://www.coursera.org/course/insidetheinternet